Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures
Pathways, targets and temporalities: Analysing English agriculture's net zero futures
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路径、目标和时间性：分析英国农业的净零未来
DOI：
10.1177/25148486211064962
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Robert Booth
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作者：
Robert Booth
净零排放目标越来越具有国际意义，因为它们越来越多地被世界各国政府所接受。本文分析了净零目标作为一种明显面向未来的环境治理方法。它从一个批判的角度来审视净零目标是否有助于再现环境决策的现有暂时性，或者它们是否代表着与当前做法的决裂，并反过来发展新的暂时性和与未来互动的新方式。为了做到这一点，这篇文章的重点是努力减少农业排放在英格兰净零。2019年，英国立法要求到2050年将温室气体排放量减少到净零。这反过来又鼓励粮食系统中的行为者创造各种想象中的实现净零农业的途径。本文批判性地分析了这些想象中的途径是如何通过批判性话语分析产生的有影响力的演员在这一领域内最近的灰色文献产生的Defra，气候变化委员会和全国农民联盟。它断言，在某种程度上，净零和目标导向的方法体现在当前的环境决策代表了一个'空'的现代主义未来与一些后政治层面的不断复制。然而，这种评估是微妙的，承认国家和非国家机构产生这些话语内部和之间出现的紧张局势。然而，最终，净零过渡将各方聚集在一起，围绕由可持续集约化和负排放技术定义的农业未来的技术乐观愿景。在这样做的过程中，它起到了压制要求在社会和物质变革的基础上进行农业变革的呼吁的作用。
Net zero emissions targets are of growing international relevance given their increasing uptake by governments across the world. This article analyses net zero targets as a distinctly future-oriented approach to environmental governance. It does so from a critical perspective, examining whether net zero targets serve to reproduce the existing temporalities of environmental policymaking or whether they represent a break with current practices and, in turn, develop new temporalities and novel ways of engaging with the future. In order to do this, this article focuses on efforts to reduce agricultural emissions in England to net zero. In 2019 the United Kingdom introduced legislation requiring a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. This, in turn, has encouraged actors in the food system to produce various imagined pathways to net-zero agriculture. This article critically analyses how these imagined pathways are discursively produced by influential actors within this sphere through a critical discourse analysis of recent grey literature produced by Defra, the Climate Change Committee and the National Farmers’ Union. It asserts that, to an extent, the net zero and target oriented approaches enshrined in current environmental policymaking represent the ongoing reproduction of both an ‘empty’ modernist future with some post-political dimensions. This assessment is, however, nuanced by recognising the tensions that emerge within and between the state and non-state institutions producing these discourses. Ultimately, however, the net zero transition draws actors together around a techno-optimistic vision of an agricultural future defined by sustainable intensification and negative emissions technologies. In doing so, it serves to suppress calls for transformative change in agriculture based on social as well as material change.
引领未来：预期和食品供应链绘图
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Donaldson A
通讯作者：
Donaldson A
资源生产争议：知识、预期政治和非常规化石燃料的节约
影响因子：
7.1
作者：
Kama K
通讯作者：
Kama K